Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-31
Arizona News.
PHOENIX.

Track laying on the railroad ih,o
Phoenix has been progressing but slowly
during the week for lack of iron. The
rails are laid to point about nine miles
from the Gila and the ties are dumped
for mile ahead.
L. I'll. Orme says he has the promise
of a magnificent crop OF Muscat ana
Sultana grapes this year.. His vines are
four years old and should show by TINS
time what they are good for. lie mas
thirty.fige acres mostly in Muscats.
Mr.. Mauck came in from the Buckeye
canal country Saturday. Water is How,
ing in the ditch and people are clearing
and blowing on every hand.
Under the Palmer ditch near Gila
BEND. there are magnificent crops OF
grain and hay as he ever saw. New
people are coming in from every dl-
rection.
Judge Hines, of Kentucky, has bought
the Norcross & Monk ditch property at
Gila Bend.
Mognette sold his ranch of 60 acres,
adjoining Phoenix, Saturday last, to the
Hon. De Barth Shorb and party, for
$4,000.
Messrt. Grisinger and Samuel Frank
lin purchased of w. Osborn, so acres In
the southeast quarter of section 30, for
81, 900.
MIR. Collins sold to Fred Sharon block
E, University addition, and to De Los
Arnold block I, for $4, 900 each.
The sales made by j. w. Evans oil
lots in Central Place during the last few
DAYS amount to the sum of $2l ,00O.-
[Phoenix Herald. - a.. ~
PRESCOTT.
II we are to believe German earth.
quake prophet, air brakes will have to
be put on some of the planets, or they
will som collide with the sun and
knock the everlasting underpinning out
of Arizona.
Nobody has, as yet, started in to con
struet large hotel. Wish some capl.
taIist from the Eist or West would
come here; it would make his mouth
water for the good things that would
come to him for the carrying out of the
enterprise.
Prosperity has settled in our noun
tains; prospectors are finding many new
l. dges, and industrious miners are TAX
ing out ton after ton of rich ore. Let
all other classes encourage the noun
taineers, and the good time SO often pre-.
dicted by us will soon be here.
The Prescott Board OF Trads met
Saturday night and discussed questions
If interest to town and section.
There was salvation till on the
streets last Saturday night, which re-
suited in the entire army being provided
with lodgings and bed at the city's ex.
pense.
A party will shortly leave Prescott
for Verde valley, Tonto Basin and
other places east of Prescott, to see the
fine farms, orchards, fat cattle, the
Aztec ruins, Montezuma Well. the
Natural Bridge, aud other wonders OF
the sections spoken of.-Prescott Cou-
rier.
Another new strike has been made in
the Olive Camp that promises to be equal
to the best. The Wedge mine, owned
hy J. B. Scott and others, has developed
u vein of exceedingly rich ore. Several
other important strikes have also recent
ly been made. In all shafts averaging
from $50 to l6O feet, water is being met
with. At this level the ore throughout
the camp has been found somewhat mar
rover, but considerably richer than any
encountered above.
The citizens of Nogales, Arizona, will
send O communication this evening to
the Governor of Sonora, apprising him
of the steps that have been taken on
this side OF the line to prevent the
spread of the smallpox, and asking him
to order that like measures be instituted
in Nogales, Sonora.
MIR. Walker has received the plans
and specifications of the Indian school
buildings to be erected here under the
auspices Of the Presbyterian church.
r. H. Paul is in from his camp. His
trains are still busy at work packing ore.
As soon as he has 500 tons on the dumps
he will blow his furnace in for run.
The camp he says, is one Of the prettiest
in Arizona.
Aproject is contemplated which pro.
poses to utilize the vast losses of water
contained in the swamps and boga
southeast of San Xavier. 1t is esti-
mated that there is sufficient water there
to irrigate rs, 600 acres of land.-[Tuc